Deportation of the Balkars
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title:
Deportation of the Balkars
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The Deportation of the Balkars was the expulsion by the Soviet government of the entire Balkar population of the North Caucasus to Central Asia on March 8, 1944, during World War II. The expulsion was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by General Secretary Joseph Stalin. All the 37,713 Balkars of the Caucasus were deported from their homeland in one day. The crime was a part of a Soviet forced settlement program and population transfer that affected several million members of n
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Ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Soviet Union
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Balkars
date created:
2018-02-27T19:42:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T18:55:05Z
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